How exactly are game theoretical evolutionary models described during implementation for computer simulations?It's not the chance of both eggs being excluded that Dawkins talks about, he talks about the chance of having an egg excluded. It's still true that it would be worth cheating for the first few birds. The wider point about the trait not being an ESS might be true, but his specific explanation is not. In your specific example, if there are 105 eggs and 5 are excluded, each egg has a ~5% (more precisely, 4.76%), not ~1%, chance of being excluded. In any case, your question was interesting so I'm writing a model of the Guillemot situation. I'll report back when done :)

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Difference between genetic engineering and synthetic biologyPCR is not synthetic; although it involves biological synthesis, it has to start from a template. Synthesis as in synthetic biology involves artificial gene synthesis, i.e. starting just with a sequence on a computer and ending with biological sequence.

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Difference between genetic engineering and synthetic biologyThe parts registry, and BioBricks are key examples of synthetic biology. And Randy's is the correct answer, except that there's no reason to exclude sequences found in nature, as long as they are ab-initio synthesised. The clue is in the name... synthetic biology involves synthesised, not cloned, biological sequences. Synthetic biology is still a subset of genetic engineering.